Hyphenation of famine

Are you trying to hyphenate famine? Unfortunately it cannot be hyphenated because it only contains one syllable.

famine

Definitions of famine:

1.	An acute insufficiency
2.	A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

Synonyms of famine:

noun	dearth, shortage, lack, deficiency, want
noun	calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.